Re: Lists of size Integer.MAX_VALUE
Roedy Green wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:08:44 -0400, Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
(Presumably we're facing an OOME before these are testable problems in today's
JVMs.)
Since corner cases are usually where programs fail, it is wise to back
up by one or two from a corner. I don't have a a 64-bit JVM to test
this, but I would guess you will get some other exception such as an
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
I have but 1 GB RAM and I don't think this motherboard accepts more than 2 GB,
so I am currently unable to test this, too. I figure similarly to you and
Arne, who said:
I think the docs are wrong.
If the list is backed by an array, then it will fail.
The point here, as with the bug in quicksort that went undetected for about
forty years [1], is that even the designers missed the corner cases.
[1]
<http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html>
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Lew
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